[Seaside] updateRoot: Weirdness

[Richard Eng]

I've seen a couple of blog posts about running Seaside with Apache. I'm a
little confused, though. Are you supposed to stop WAKom and have Seaside use
Apache instead? I'm not sure how to do this. The instructions don't make it
clear.

Thanks,
Richard


On 7/18/07 10:31 AM, "David Shaffer" <cdshaffer at acm.org> wrote:

> Richard K Eng wrote:
>>  
>>  
>> Seems like the configuring of the web server is very arcane and
>> touchy! I'm going to have the above emblazoned on my forehead...  :-)
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Richard
> 
> Yes, the Comanche web server is a pain.  After having spent the time to
> figure it out I like it and hate it at the same time ;-)  BTW, all of
> those examples refer directly to WAKom.  You probably want
> WAKomEncoded39 if you're working in a Squeak3.9 image.
> 
> Most Seaside beginners who've had web experience like the idea of having
> static resources on their file system but many seasoned Seasiders seem
> to use WAFileLibrary to serve static resources during development.
> There are examples in the image...probably wouldn't take you long to
> figure it out.  This avoids having to know anything about Comanche and
> has the advantage(?) of having all of your "static" resources in your
> Smalltalk image.  That way your static resources get versioned in
> Monticello along with your Smalltalk code.
> 
> For deployment most people use a front end web server to serve static
> files.  There was a blog post somewhere which showed a pretty nifty
> apache hack which automatically "cached" (for lack of a better word)
> file library resources.  In any case using file library makes deployment
> a bit more complicated.  I've used the "static resources on the file
> system" for all of my projects sans one and I think I still prefer it
> simply for the ease of deployment.  Maybe this can be solved?
> 
> David
> 
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